Goldstein Investigation: Lease Takeovers

“Mr. Hull David Goldstein with CBS2 News. Remember me, we did a story on you awhile ago?”

“Yeah”

Geoffrey hull remembers the story we did on him ten years ago. After it aired, he was convicted of two counts of grand theft auto and served 15 months in prison for what the prosecutor called a “slick” “high tech” and “very sophisticated fraud” with expensive cars.

Hull wasn’t accused of stealing them off the streets–but rather telling owners he’d find someone to take over their leases–only to take the car and not pay.

Now we found him back wheeling and dealing with expensive cars—with some customers making the same allegations.

“Did you consider your car stolen?”

“Yes. At that point, yes”

Andrey Bogan of New York thinks hull stole his $85,000 Mercedes GLE. He wanted to get out of his lease and last year put an ad on a popular website which connects owners to buyers.

Within days he says Hull called to say he’d act as the middleman to find someone to take over the lease.